Kalenian Award

Awarded by
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

The Kalenian Award, established in 2006 through the generosity of Alba Kalenian in memory of her late husband Aram (Class of 1933), provides seed funds to support and advance the ideas and inventiveness of WPI students, faculty and alumni(ae). Aram Kalenian was an inventor who had numerous useful ideas and reduced many of them to practice. The purpose of the Kalenian Award is to encourage similar innovation and entrepreneurship at any stage of development from the WPI academic community. This award's focus is to fuel the entrepreneurial spirit through annual funding of a single viable invention.

Aram Kalenian's inventions and hard work have provided the perpetual funds for this award, and in this same spirit we hope that award recipients will succeed so well in life, as to provide WPI with future award funds to encourage invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship in their own names.

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Year Recipient Name Awarded by Type
2024 Antonio Marzoratti, Ivan Zou Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2019 Killian Henson Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2019 Pamela Weathers Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2019 Michael Timko Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2019 Alex Teixeira Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2019 Lenore Rasmussen Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2019 Ahmet Can Sabuncu Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2019 Geoffrey A. Tompsett Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2019 Anastasia Karapanagou Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2019 Nicholas C. Cyganski Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Alumni
2017 Cagdas D. Onal Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2017 Weijia Tao Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Ming Luo Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Dou Dou Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2017 Joe Stabile Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2017 Daniel Shrives Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Fred Looft Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2016 Mike Ciaraldi Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2016 Aaron Birt Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Graduate
2016 Ali Valamanesh Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Nicholas Cyganski Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Xavier Little Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Erik Nadel Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Tyler Nickerson Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2016 Diran Apelian Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2015 Pamela Weathers Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2015 Fabeinne Miller Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2015 Huong Higgins Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2015 Kevin Sweeney Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Faculty
2015 Ben Pulver Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Elizabeth van Zyl Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate
2015 Taylor Flaxington Kalenian Award Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate